It’s a shame you’ve chosen to delete everything after 24 hours. I understand why though. Maybe just make no guarantee that the apps will stay live, so I can share what I make with friends?
I like the plain design, very austere and to the point. It would be good if your copy was just as blunt and frank, tell us why it’s good and why we should use it
I mean, the ultimate "fake it till you make it" power move would be to go straight to the "Our Incredible Story" acquisition/aquihire claim on your homepage linking straight to a Google Graveyard project, right?
(Then start posting on your LinkedIn about your new "career" hand building replica Inuit whalebone and sealskin canoes using traditional methods...)
This is cool, but it seems to be broken. I tried to create a table called `test`, but I got `something went wrong but we won't say what`. It's also not clear to me what to do with a table (I don't see any options to add columns or data).
EDIT: Maybe it's just being hugged to death. Just about every action is throwing the aforementioned error now.
EDIT2: This would be really cool if it were self-hosted (obviously without the auto-deletion)!
Hi, it periodically got hugged to death and this. Assuming the creator wasn't monitoring all server traffic as part of their outreach campaign, flippant messages like mine can help to show the reality of people being bounced quickly and fix their server infrastructure or code.
Flippant messages like yours do not provide any value and do not help any more than ”Seems like it was hugged to death”. Pretty much anything that is not protected by ”cloudflare & co” will be hugged to death by HN
Not sure what's ugly about it: it looks nicer and cleaner than most of the websites I see. I'm also not quite sure what's an "app platform", but this seems to be some sort of a web publishing service, and there's a bug on page creation: it leads to a 404 error page (possibly it requires JS, but doesn't say so, and works without it otherwise).
Edit: Noticed the docs page [1]. There's some scripting, so the uploaded pages are rather PHP-style scripts/apps, hence the "app platform", probably. Might be useful to link the documentation from the main page.
Reminds me of expages.com from back in the 90s. Creating a website was simple. The "login" page to create an expage was the same as the sign up, so you could easily create new websites on the expage.com domain.
My friends and I built huge networks of Expage websites. Even the popular kids in school made their own sites. Being linked to by certain people was a big deal.
I credit Expage as being one of the main reasons I got into software development.
Is the source code public? If not, do you have plans to make it open-source? I'm impressed at how fast you've been able to fix bugs and implement new features and I'd like to see how it works :)
Heads up for the creator: putting everything under ugliest.app allows pages to read the same cookies across different "apps". If anyone plans to use the platform for production (which you appear to welcome), nothing substantial can be done.
I forgot what made github.com switch to github.io. Something similar but totally separate.
There's also the added benefit of being able to list the github.io domain on the Public Suffix List [1], which means that no cookies can be set for the top level domain, only the *.github.io subdomains. This prevents the platform users from accidentally revealing their cookies to every other app under the top level domain.
EDIT: to ellaborate for the interested, the Public Suffix List is used by browser vendors to decide what part of the URL is considered the TLD for display and cookie security purposes (and I imagine others).
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I created an app. How do I get 100M USD series A funding round?
(Then start posting on your LinkedIn about your new "career" hand building replica Inuit whalebone and sealskin canoes using traditional methods...)
Sorry, not gonna fund that, it’s not scalable enough.
[0]: https://github.com/rotoclone/strategic-communication
EDIT: Maybe it's just being hugged to death. Just about every action is throwing the aforementioned error now.
EDIT2: This would be really cool if it were self-hosted (obviously without the auto-deletion)!
That means it got an error while running git.
I think you got the big hug
people should just start immediately posting a screenshot or a screen record as their first comment because thats all I want to see usually anyway
Warning: May contain sound
Edit: Accidentally left the token on the URL I posted and got pwned... :)
Geocities xoom (i think?) Tripod Angelfire!
[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20080726043830/http://www.heathe...
Edit: Noticed the docs page [1]. There's some scripting, so the uploaded pages are rather PHP-style scripts/apps, hence the "app platform", probably. Might be useful to link the documentation from the main page.
[1] https://ugliest.app/docs/pages.html
EDIT: new link, new messageboard, slightly harder to break https://ugliest.app/l/e93dbf19-2cf4-4f6e-82a9-a763bb8fde6f/m...
edit: annnnnnnd it's back!
also: template: :12:48: executing "" at <insert "posts">: error calling insert: table "posts" doesn't exist
All in all I have so many questions – Let's start with: "WHY, tho?"
Because that's what people have decided. It is what it is.
> All in all I have so many questions – Let's start with: "WHY, tho?"
Why not?
I personally quite like the aesthetic.
I credit Expage as being one of the main reasons I got into software development.
probably closer to the truth of competing cloud providers than it has any right to be
I forgot what made github.com switch to github.io. Something similar but totally separate.
Same reason: to prevent user-generated/user-hosted content from being able to read GitHub.com cookies.
The fully writeup is here: https://github.blog/2013-04-09-yummy-cookies-across-domains/
Yep, here's the link that explains it all:
https://github.blog/2013-04-09-yummy-cookies-across-domains/
EDIT: to ellaborate for the interested, the Public Suffix List is used by browser vendors to decide what part of the URL is considered the TLD for display and cookie security purposes (and I imagine others).
[1] https://publicsuffix.org/
EDIT: The linked Github article states exactly that, is it out of date?